Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

30 minutes ago, fixed rider with green socks swooping in left to right, then to the front of the queue eastbound on Farringdon/Clerkenwell rd. You couldn't hold the trackstand long enough so tried to cycle in front of the cross traffic... then had the nerve to give the driver the finger when they didn't give way...

I passed a chap going down embankment from the houses of parliament, then he passed me through a red, I then took the left on Lambeth bridge after him- which has a zebra crossing on the approach.

He dinged his bell at the woman about to walk onto the crossing to warn her that he was clearly not going to stop.

I passed him again on the bridge, feeling like saying something but unable to be rude.

He then almost ran straight into the back of the chap on a Boris bike who had stopped at the lights on the other side of the bridge.

We all waited, then as we set off he said to me "shame about the coppers ruining our flow"- I'd not noticed the 5 series jam sandwich behind us.

I just felt really depressed, and saddened, that this utter cunt thought I was "in his gang".

Ah mate. You could have pointed out that stopping at all the ped crossings and lights had left no gap at all between you and he.

'Chapeau' to the bellend who managed to jump the lights on New Kings Road turning left through peds onto Parsons Greeen... then doing a u turn and jumping the lights again to do a left back onto New Kings Road. Twat.

Coincidentally your shit cycling (and this was not the only example) didn't appear to help you make any serious progress as even the slow ones who waited at the lights were catching you up before long.

Do some cyclign trainign before you get yourself badly injured.

Do some cyclign trainign before you get yourself badly injured.

Have you considered typign trainign?

Well done to the two cyclists that thought that undertaking a bus on Roseberry Aveneue was a good idea!

Have you considered typign trainign?

Get with it Grandad! That's how the kids are writign it nowadays.

Innit, blud (or whatever it is older people say to try and indicate they know waht yonug pepole say but tehn get it vrey wrnog and end up lookign liek a tawt).

Spell checker? Looks as though you should've studied harder at school. Or were you too busy trying to catch all the Pokemon?

Gotta catch 'em all!

I passed a chap going down embankment from the houses of parliament, then he passed me through a red, I then took the left on Lambeth bridge after him- which has a zebra crossing on the approach.

He dinged his bell at the woman about to walk onto the crossing to warn her that he was clearly not going to stop.

I passed him again on the bridge, feeling like saying something but unable to be rude.

He then almost ran straight into the back of the chap on a Boris bike who had stopped at the lights on the other side of the bridge.

We all waited, then as we set off he said to me "shame about the coppers ruining our flow"- I'd not noticed the 5 series jam sandwich behind us.

I just felt really depressed, and saddened, that this utter cunt thought I was "in his gang".

I feel sadder even that you chose to keep your mouth shut through out.

Imma call myself out AGAIN for riding like a twat last night and pulling out in front of a black cab to change lanes.

In my defence (such as it is) it was dark and his headlights were incredibly wussy so I didn't actually see him when I did my initial shoulder check OR when I did my second shoulder check after finishing the manoeuvre, but still. Could have looked harder. Proper shit me up when he beeped at me from right on my back wheel. Brr.

^ I did the same thing on Westminster Bridge last week.. maybe some older black cabs have really low lights?

I feel sadder even that you chose to keep your mouth shut through out.

Yeah, I keep turning that over in my head- it would have just turned into a shouting match though, the other chap was very confident that he was riding in an appropriate fashion, and would have taken anything I could have said as an attack- which in many ways it would have been.

Better, I think, if I'd just thrown him and his bike over the railing into the Thames.

To the fixie skidder on a beater wearing a black and yellow cap who sped through a pedestrian crossing on red near Westminster nearly taking out a bloke in a suit (who may well have been a minister) about 30 minutes ago... Sort your fucking life out.

To the woman who started gleefully running across the road towards the park with your 4 year child without looking either direction and placing both of you almost straight in my path, you deserved my stare of death for putting your own child's life at risk you awful parent.

Bad pedestrians/parents thread >>>>>>>>>>>

I really was expecting to post in this thread this morning with the sunshine yesterday and predicted for the next two, but it was surprisingly quiet for me on the way in. Cool, quiet, sunny and I just cleaned my chain so I was a happy, silent cyclist this morning.

I quite enjoyed commuting to Ealing today and seeing the pillockton heading the other way, they did all seem to be remarkably well behaved.

Maybe they were enjoying themselves as much as we were. And there is a rare kind of joy to be had moving the opposite direction of commuters.

fucking numpty nodder twat nearly rode into me whilst I was crossing bath street this morning.

in what fucking world does someone on crutches approaching the pedestrian crossing whilst the green man is clearly showing give you the impression that it's ok for you to rlj.

I'm glad you shit yourself up grabbing the front brake so hard so the rear wheel popped up in the air, I only wish you'd slid off your saddle and whacked your bollocks on the top tube.

a sorry wouldn't have gone amiss either. prick.

I think it may be more a case of it still being a novelty for the fair weather commuters, so they are still in a good mood. Mind you; it was a good thing that I was wearing my sunglasses as there was an alarming amount of shitty yellow and orange hi-vis that could have otherwise blinded me.

Yeah, I keep turning that over in my head- it would have just turned into a shouting match though, the other chap was very confident that he was riding in an appropriate fashion, and would have taken anything I could have said as an attack- which in many ways it would have been.

Better, I think, if I'd just thrown him and his bike over the railing into the Thames.

It's worse that he rides off thinking it's fine not to stop when peds have the right of way. Fellow cyclists, I think, have a bigger effect than peds or motorists when calling 'one of our own'. I'd like to think that in those quiet moments afterwards you still think about your actions even though you may have verbally lashed out at the source.

If you're going straight ahead, why would you take yourself out of the traffic streat only to force your way back in when the traffic starts moving again?
Why not just stay in stream before and through the junction and only when you've passed it, think about the gutter moves?

Each situation differs, as an example I might be left side filtering where unable to on right, end up waiting behind hgv / bus / someone pulled over, so to left of car behind it. Happens fairly frequently when I ride down Princess Parkway here in Manchester where at rush hour it's very stop start for about 4 miles so careful filtering is best option to make steady progress.

Was expecting noddergeddon this morning but it wasn't too bad.

Those that were out were a fucking shambles though. Especially the woman who decided to check a text message halfway across the huge junction at the top of Ken High St. While undertaking a bus.

Is it time to change the name of this thread...?

To "It's time to call out bad cycling"

Fuck. It's atrocious out there.

I'm a new bod here but just saying...

With good weather comes......